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All right, let's talk about, talk about in terms of interrogation.

Because I read my notes, and I thought, I need a better, a fuller explanation of what was going on there.

I mean, so Rachel College Owen says, please show up in my office in Austin at the Attorney General's Office.

Yeah.

In February 2018, Tom's mom Penny got a phone call.

It was Rachel Cading from the Texas Attorney General's Office.

Cading in her partner, Chris Smith, had just been assigned to Tom's case.

She asked if Penny, her husband, Chris Meag, and her older son Tucker could come to Austin for an interview.

They made the seven-hour drive from Canadian and Penny suburban.

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